Bryant returns to practice

IRVING – Wide receiver Dez Bryant practiced this afternoon after missing every workout since he aggraved a left hamstring injury Tuesday.

Bryant didn’t appear to favor the hamstring while running routes, but it wasn’t a stellar day for the first-round pick. In addition to dropping a pass, he appeared to run a bad route that resulted in an incompletion.

Coach Wade Phillips stressed that Bryant didn’t use the injury to dodge work.

“I do want to make it clear that he hasn’t asked to get out of anything,” Phillips said. “We are the ones who took him out when his hamstring was sore. He said he could come back two days ago, and we said no. You are not getting out of anything when you are working with (athletic trainer) Britt Brown…(The players) can tell you it’s probably harder working with him than it is being out on the field. He is not getting out of anything. He is not trying to get out of anything.”